Lucky Obukohwo Reporting
Edo Central Senatorial Caucus and chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Archbishop Anthony Okosun, has urged Omoregie Ogbeide-Ihama, a governorship aspirant of the party, to work with the state governor, Godwin Obaseki to produce his successor.
He said this can only be possible if he unites the two factions in the party together( the factions of Governor Godwin Obaseki and Chief Dan Orbih).
He made the appeal at the party’s senatorial secretariat in Uromi, Esan North-East Local Government Area, when Ogbeide-Ihama, visited leaders of the party in the district to inform them of his ambition to contest for the governorship position.
The senatorial leader who was very blunt and did not hide the candidate they are supporting by expression, stressed that the two factions in the party must work together in order to present a formidable force for the election, failing which the PDP will be labouring for the victory of the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) or the Labour Party in the election.
Archbishop Okosun pointed out that without unity in the party, neither Governor Obaseki nor Dan Orbih’s faction of the PDP will win the governorship election in Edo even with the importation of the famous “Angel Michael” in the Bible from heaven.
“I want to beg you (Ogbeide-Ihama), our labour shall not be in vain so that at the end of the day, we don’t labour for the APC or Labour Party to enjoy. You (Ogbeide-Ihama) are fully aware of the factions in PDP as you are not a stranger in the party.
“God has put you in a position to help us to reconcile. Because as long as that faction is there, PDP will not go to Osadebey House, Edo State seat of power. One faction can not do it.
“We did it in Edo Central and we lost the Senatorial seat. We lost the National Assembly (House of Representatives) seat. Today, the ants are drinking the milk.
“Please, help us to pull the two factions together. As I said in Abuja, if one faction, let say the governor’s faction will go to heaven to bring Angel Michael without the other faction, he will contest and fail. “If the other faction, let say Dan Orbih’s faction will go to heaven to bring Angel Michael, he will contest the election and fail.
“But if the two of them come together and go to hell and bring the devil, they will contest election and win. Therefore, I am begging you, please use your good offices to bring peace to the party.
“Osadebey House is for the PDP. Let us not continue to fight so that at the end of the day, APC or Labour will not go there”, Okosun said.